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- verb Present participle of
foment .
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Examples
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For example, the twisted manipulators who are feeding this sheepish mob all the nonsense they spout now were making excellent use of tools other than racism in fomenting so much hate for Hilary Clinton in the 1990s.
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The Holocaust compelled many Christians to examine the historic role of churches in fomenting anti-Semitism.
Film 2009
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As you might expect, the U.S. media is again fomenting panic, with people scurrying and worrying about global warming and where did the honeybees go and on which political party should the blame fall, when the Farm Report tells us the simple truth: it's a virus specifically directed toward the honeybee that causes extensive stress on their immune systems.
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The indigenous tribes living along today's Three-Fingers border region between Jalisco and Zacatecas led the way in fomenting the insurrection.
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As you might expect, the U.S. media is again fomenting panic, with people scurrying and worrying about global warming and where did the honeybees go and on which political party should the blame fall, when the Farm Report tells us the simple truth: it's a virus specifically directed toward the honeybee that causes extensive stress on their immune systems.
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There are reports that US “paramilitaries” are active in fomenting unrest in both Bolivia and Venezuela.
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The indigenous tribes living along today's Three-Fingers border region between Jalisco and Zacatecas led the way in fomenting the insurrection.
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"Devor succeeds because he's created a film depicting a lifestyle scandalous and controversial to the mainstream that's completely disinterested in fomenting scandal and controversy," writes Jeff Reichert at indieWIRE.
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I believe in fomenting revolutionary change on the geological time scale.
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I believe in fomenting revolutionary change on the geological time scale.
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